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Voice overs/text-to-speech
I work with Storyline a lot as an Instructional Designer, and I was wondering when Articulate will come out with more voices for text-to-speech. Also, the voices sound really robotic, so is there a ...
Hi everyone, in reviewing this thread, I saw quite a few posts that called out the robotic nature of the Text To Speech feature in Storyline 360 and I wanted to share some good news. Today in Storyline 360 update 80, users will see better versions of most of the voices when inserting TTS audio. These will show up in the same place as the standard voices, under “Neural Voices”. These are voices that sound more natural and human-like and are considerably higher in quality compared to the older standard TTS voices.
A list of these voices can be found here. Updating Storyline 360 to the latest version is super easy, here is the guide in case anyone needs it.
We will continue to keep tabs on requests to support ways to control speaking rate, inserting silence, pronunciation and SSML support in general. Please let us know of any feedback (good or bad), around this enhancement and we’ll be happy to pass it along to our dedicated team of engineers.
All the best,
Michael Marcos
Customer Support Product Liaison
I have been using Voicemaker for TTS. It has some pretty natural sounding voices, supports many languages, and the "premium" subscription is only $10 per month. I agree though, recording sentence-by-sentence is laborious...
I have been using Amazon Polly to create all of the MP3 audio clips used for narration in my Storyline courses because it delivers " high-quality, natural-sounding human voices in dozens of languages". It's MUCH better than the robotic TTS available from Storyline 360 and I've found it to be both quick and easy to use. In addition, the price is very reasonable because the IT group at my company is already working with Amazon Web Services.
